Universal Courtroom Observation

I attended Universal Studios Florida to observe an interpreter in a performance setting. The interpreter observed was Kerry Anne Vuini who is nationally certified with her NIC. I attended two different shows at Universal to observe Kerry Anne. The first show was “The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad Stunt Show”. After I took my seat directly in front of the interpreter, I noticed a Deaf individual in the audience sitting in the specified viewing section for the interpreter. When the show started I immediately noticed that Kerry Anne was signing right on top of the message, so much so that it was obvious to me that she had everything memorized. When I asked her about this, she informed me that she interprets this show almost everyday so she already know …show more content…
At this show, there we no deaf individuals present to Kerry Anne’s nor my knowledge. At one point during the show, while the host was talking a dog ran out, stole an object, and ran backstage. While this happened Kerry Anne interpreted the woman speaking and then she signed what the dog did. When I asked her why she did this, she told me that if there was a deaf consumer watching her, it is possible they would have missed the action of the dog running out and stealing something. This is a funny part of the show all of the hearing audience members clearly notice, so Kerry Anne felt that it was a decision she made considering cultural mediation to make sure any deaf audience members are aware of just as much as any hearing audience members. During a different segment of the show, I noticed Kerry Anne performed the signing technique of partitioning very well. The host of the show was talking about how a specific bird will fly right into an audience member’s hand. Kerry Anne interpreted this by placing her weak hand palm up and used a semantic classifier (^^) with her dominant hand to demonstrate the bird, and placed her dominant hand on top of the palm of her weak hand.
During another part of the show, a man in the audience yelled “Oh Shit!” and everyone in the audience could hear it. Kerry Anne made the ethical decision not to interpret that. When I asked her about this decision, she told me she decided not to sign that because it was not a part of the show and would not add or subtract from the source message. She added that because Universal Studios is also a family environment, she made the ethical decision not to interpreter the profanity which had nothing to do with the

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